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Maryland State Academic Improvement Center: Transforming Teaching and Learning

The Maryland State Department of Education's Breakthrough Center offers intensive professional development for low-achieving schools, focusing on ELA and Math to enhance teacher skills and leadership for increased student achievement. Collaborative planning, lesson implementation, and analysis are key components to drive lasting improvements. Partner perspectives highlight the impact on teaching strategies and overall instructional quality.

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Maryland State Academic Improvement Center: Transforming Teaching and Learning

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  1. Maryland State Departmentof Education Division of Academic Reform and Innovation Instructional Improvement Initiatives

  2. Breakthrough Center Maryland’s statewide system of support to low-achieving schools

  3. Core Work - Instruction • Provide targeted and intensive principal leadership development • Provide targeted and intensive teacher professional development -English Language Arts -Mathematics

  4. The Outcomes for Professional Development • To improve teacher knowledge of both subject matter and effective instructional strategies • To build the capacity of school leadership teams to provide job-embedded professional development to increase student achievement

  5. MSDE Staffing Maryland’s RTTT Scope of Work provides 10.5 positions for the teacher professional development initiative

  6. Which schools do we support? School Improvement Grant (SIG) schools and identified feeder schools

  7. Model of Professional Development • Collaborative Planning and Lesson Design • Lesson Implementation • Lesson Debriefing/Analysis of Student Work • Differentiated Professional Development

  8. Collaborative Planning

  9. Model of Professional Development • Collaborative Planning • Lesson Implementation

  10. Lesson Implementation

  11. Model of Professional Development • Collaborative Planning • Lesson Implementation • Lesson Debriefing/Analysis of Student Work

  12. Lesson Debriefing/Analysis of Student Work

  13. Model of Professional Development • Collaborative Planning • Lesson Implementation • Lesson Debriefing/Analysis of Student Work • Differentiated Professional Development

  14. Differentiated Professional Development

  15. Partner Perspective Judi Strawbridge Francis Scott Key Elementary School

  16. Lasting improvements in teaching and learning can only come from a strategy focused on improving instructionRichard Elmore, 1996

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